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By Jack Joseph Smith

This is the time not to listen, Harvested field fire makes nucular clond; While children move under the smoke That is an ancient rite Free from sight, Spinning; Body Twirls Of laughter, Removed from the modern dance of death: Self made four wheel drive night light; Hunter, Silent arrow, or powered rifle Will keep whiskey breath From kissing rabits in the ditch tonight. Mad salvage-man of the junk yard plains. Distroyer of economic images, Huge iron money man With one mind and no overhead He is the wild candelabra church thief He is the gleamed eyed brass watcher Loving closed factories in his vision Of shambles

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes children moving beneath smoke from a harvested field, a hunter keeping whiskey breath from rabbits, and a salvage worker who prizes closed factories and shambles.

The speaker contrasts the children's laughter with a modern dance of death before turning to hunting and industrial salvage. Corrected stanza spacing separates those scenes. Faint duplicated type limits the exact reading of the smoke image.


Claude

A typed poem in three stanzas: field fire that 'makes nucular clond', children who move 'under the smoke' in 'an ancient rite', a night hunter whose whiskey breath is kept 'From kissing rabits in the ditch tonight.', and the 'Mad salvage-man of the junk yard plains' who loves 'closed factories in his vision / Of shambles'.

The poem builds a gallery of rural figures with mythic titles; nucular clond is kept as typed and stays provisional.